Apology

With regard to the last post, I’d like to clarfiy why I have used the word ‘girl’ not ‘woman’ in the title. Many of you have pointed this out to me. My thought when I began to write this short post was that I was addressing it to girls at school, who were thinking about whether […]

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Experimenting

One of my talks last week concerned a piece of work I’d done with my second year experimental physics class this year. Before going to Melbourne, I gave the talk a trial run at the University of Waikato’s ‘celebrating teaching’ day. It provoked a few comments then, and a few more in Melbourne, so I […]

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Climate change and conferences

Back on-line now after a week in Melbourne at the Australian Institute of Physics conference. I have lots of good stuff to blog about, including optomechanics (using light to cause vibrations), physics education (lots on this), the Large Hadron Collider and complicated models of things that might not even exist, but I’ll do this one on climate […]

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Real Science in easy chunks

Last week I took part in a ‘Science Sampler Day’, at Ruakura in Hamilton. The idea behind this was to take some really good year 9 school children, and give them a day exposed to some real science. This was run by another Hamilton-based scientist Liz Carpenter, and I thought was a great success. Throughout […]

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